Re: ZFS on root - almost there

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 22/02/2020 16:56, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> Surely I have missed and/or misuderstood some of the above, but I am getting:
> ...
> Starting ZFS on root boot strapper
> Copying needed kernel modules from NAME=boot:/stand/amd64/9.99.47/modules
> mount: no match for 'boot': No such process
> /mnt//stand/amd64/9.99.47/modules/zfs/solaris.kmod not found!
> /mnt//stand/amd64/9.99.47/modules/zfs/zfs.kmod not found!
> umount: /mnt: not currently mounted
>
> Importing rpool, mounting and pivoting
> internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library
> ....
>
> It seems it tries to mount the small ufs root on /mnt using
> 'NAME=boot' label, but the label created by the standard installed is
> some GUID.

Wups!
I missed an instruction step to ensure the label of the FFS partiton is boot.
gpt label -i 1 -l boot wd0
Replace 1 with the partition index and wd0 with the device.

We do it like so to avoid the user needing to load the solaris and zfs modules 
in boot.cfg.
Ideally we should teach sysctl to have kern.boot_device alongside 
kern.root_device to avoid this need.

Roy